juiceless Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Hi all - Apologies if this has been asked and answered before, but I'm in a bit of a bind. I've been running unraid for years without issue. My hardware finally gave up the ghost. I'll be replacing it evenutally, but not right away. Is there any way for me to get access to the data on the drives without rebuilding and running unraid? I'm hoping there's a solution where I can plug one/some of the drives into my PC and be able to pull some files off. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Each disk is independent and can be read by any OS capable of reading its filesystem. Any linux will probably be able to read them. Do you know what filesystem they are? What version of unRAID? Quote Link to comment
juiceless Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 Not sure of the filessytem, but unraid is v5.0-rc11. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 The only filesystem on that old version was ReiserFS. What can you tell us about your PC? What OS? How would you plug the unRAID disks into it? Quote Link to comment
juiceless Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 Windows 10. I won't be able to hook up all the drives at once, but I have 3 free sata ports I can use. Unraid box had 1 parity drive and 5 storage drives. Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Do you know which drive was parity? Parity doesn't have any filesystem, and so no files, so you don't have to worry about reading that one. I haven't tried this myself, but google found this which might let you read your unRAID disks: https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ Quote Link to comment
JorgeB Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 4 hours ago, trurl said: Do you know which drive was parity? Parity doesn't have any filesystem, and so no files, so you don't have to worry about reading that one. I haven't tried this myself, but google found this which might let you read your unRAID disks: https://www.diskinternals.com/linux-reader/ That works, and used it once before a long time ago, another option is to boot your PC with a Ubuntu live flash drive, you'll have access to any connected unRAID disks as well as your NTFS disk(s) and can copy/move data around. Quote Link to comment
juiceless Posted March 10, 2018 Author Share Posted March 10, 2018 Awesome suggestions, thanks trurl and johnnie.black, I'll try them out today. Thanks so much. Quote Link to comment
pwm Posted March 10, 2018 Share Posted March 10, 2018 Consider mounting the unRAID disks read-only - a read-write mount of a data disk will have the OS perform a number of writes to the disks that will invalidate the parity. Quote Link to comment
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